An Issue-by-Issue Directory & Archive of Hippocampus Magazine Content
This Hippocampus archive page has been a work in progress; we decided to make it go live in its raw form so that folks could still navigate to past issues and see a list of all stories and contributors.
Previously, you had to navigate to these through drop-down menus for first for year, then month; that solution got a little cumbersome as we got well past a decade. (See inset image.)
We’d stopped keeping up with that drop-down menu with the intention of creating one standalone page. This isn’t the final form of it, but we wanted to get a version of it public-facing so that archives were easier to browse.
Using this Page
To use this page (for now), you will see a HEADER for each issue, followed by a clickable title of the MONTH(S) of the issue, with a bulleted list of authors/titles of each CNF piece beneath. That LINK will take you to all stories categorized under that month/year. It’s important to note that the decision not to link each story was intentional; it’d 1) make the page *really* blue and 2) it would just look spammy as a list of several hundred links.
Other Ways to Browse
- You can also browse past Hippocampus content by primary category (just look in our main menu for essay/flash/review/interview/writing life/craft, etc.)
- You can also see an alphabetical listing by author tag at our SEARCH BY AUTHOR page.
We apologize that this page is a bit raw AND long; there’s a solution to have this content nestled within accordions for each year, but the way our current plug-in works, it would not make that content visible to search engines (and that’s important to us), so we opted for a longer “scrolly list” for now. 🙂 We have plans to make this page more robust, but we’re volunteers with limited time, so consider this a rough draft. Happy browsing!
2025 Issues
To be added soon.(As mentioned above, this page has been in the works for a while and we only had up to 2024 done. So we’re working on the newer stuff now!)
2024 Issues
- Ery Caswell “Something to Do With Peanut Butter”
- Callie Arnold Dinolfo “Ringing in the Rain”
- Paige Lammers “Here With You”
- Leah Glennon “Daniel”
- Ridghaus “1,2,3, Breathe”
- Cathy Mellett “Among the Rocks”
- Anne Kenner “Short”
- Donna Obeid “Stones”
- Rachel Moscovich “The Spin Society”
- Jeanne Malmgren “Day 1 of 1,000”
- Abby Alten Schwartz “And you suddenly get why adrenaline junkies chase this rush”
- Lisa Thornton “The Great Wave”
- S. N. Rodriguez “Cold Ramen”
- Luke Reiter “Illiterati”
- Judy Harju Galliher “The Combover”
- Sue Fagalde Lick “Behind the Microphone”
- Brian Lee Knopp “The Toughest Texan”
- Beth Ann Matthews “Willy: One in Ten”
- Melanie Faranello “The Shape of Grief”
- Lina Herman “Things I Did in Our Tiny Alcove of the Emergency Department While We Waited For the On-Call Psychiatrist To Assess Whether He Thought My Daughter Would Attempt Suicide Again If We Brought Her Home”
- Carol E. Anderson “The Last Ride”
- Staci Mercado “Trickster Laughs”
- Rebecca Tiger “Frill”
- Shinichi Terada “Lai Lai Dance Hall”
- Gabriella Graceffo “Bridging Shapes”
- Whitney Brown “Dispatched from the Ice”
- Elizabeth Savage “Alone and Adrift in a Birthing Tub”
- Ava Robinson “The Facts of Your Body”
- Andi Beierman “Transits”
- Ben Decter “Sex Boxers”
- Amber Burke “Radishes”
- Shannon Purdy Jones “Eggs”
- AV Bruce “This Side of Silence”
- Tom McAllister “When We Used to Glow”
- Katherine Rawson “It Is Particularly Requested”
- LuLu Grant “Mourning the Unknown”
- Belinda J. Kein “Some Measure of Comfort”
- L.C. Button “One Last Bite”
- Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt “Like a Flock of Homesick Cranes”
- Tiffany Doerr Guerzon “An Index for Motherhood”
- Melissa Goodnight “Kansas”
- Sydney Chaffee “Haunting”
- Kristian Sean O’Hare “Mr. Abenshein”
- Alida Miranda-Wolff “Year of the Rabbit”
- Deborah Heimann “Spring Training”
- Ryan Nielsen “Squatter’s Rights”
- Holly Abbe “Road Signs”
- Natasha Singh “Switch”
- Marcos Reyna “Streams”
- Bridgette Shade “Security”
- Rayya Leibich “Hands of a Maker”
- Michael Nagle “Gay Boy Cuddles”
- Alison Colwell “Don’t Ignore the Ashes”
- Monika Dutt “My Rock”
- Kate Lu Sedor Call Us By Our Names”
- Jen Machajewski “A Letter to Mother with the Long Hair”
- Casey Mulligan Walsh “Help Wanted: Pre-Emptive Griever”
2023 Issues
- Cindy Dean Jones “He Said, I Said”
- Harrison Reed “I’m OK”
- Michaela Evanow “The Cake”
- Dheepa R. Maturi “Unfolding”
- Cynthia Gralla “Via Crucis Via Lucis”
- Leighton Schreyer “Thrift Store Stories”
- Vincent Antonio Rendoni “Another Day in Sales”
- Itoro Bassey “Goodbye America”
- Judith Katzman “Blind Spots I Have (Not) Known”
- Maria Hetherton “Imposter Syndrome”
- Joy Riggs “A Balancing Act”
- Karissa Venne “6 Things You Didn’t Know About Martha’s Vineyard”
- Trish Cantillon “Let Her Eat Cake”
- Jason Morales “You Can’t Judge a Book By It’s Cover”
- Jonathan Odell “Lighting the Way”
- Renee Soasy “Widowmaker”
- Lisa Sparrell “What a Widow Needs to Know”
- Marian Rogers “How to Cook for Your Mother”
- Ren Cedar Fuller “Checklist for a Sign-Making Party”
- Rebecca Houghton “The Twenty-Karat Golden”
- Danielle Shorr “In Observance of My Hometown”
- Romila Santra “The Letters You’ll Never Read”
- Krishna Chari “Samskara”
- Syrah Linsley “Bird Bouquet”
- Jamie Murnane “A Bed as a Memory, a Nap as Foreshadowing”
- Doug Smith “Skin”
- Melissent Zumwalt “Resumé”
- Louise Bell “Menopause in Young Adulthood 101”
- J B Allen “The Source”
- Laila Miller “Catching the Bus”
- Sarah Marty-Schlipf “We Live Here Now”
- Heidi Stuber “List of Interventions: Age 4-6”
- Camille U. Adams “Why Deny the Obvious Child”
- Yuko lida Frost “My Mother’s Bath Time Story”
- Sabena Stark “Seder Night”
- Paula Kupchak Hall “How Does the Heart Function”
- Adrienne Ross Scanlan “Picardo Pilgrimage”
- Jeffery G. Moss “It’s Not Hospice”
- Sara Mann “Decomposition”
- Sonja Livingston “Flinch”
- Brittany Ackerman “Cats Gymnastics”
- Olivia Flaherty-Lovy “St. Anthony’s Mistake”
- Remi Recchia “Antennae Twitching with Precision”
- Wendy Besel Hahn “The Ponytail”
- Jennifer Gallo Gaites “How to Treat Migraines with Acupuncture”
- Donovan Dennis “In the Senate We Read Dante and I Loved Him”
- Katie Burgess “This Is a Drill”
- Christina Fugate “going to iowa”
- Josie Kochendorfer “The Chronology of My Body”
- Molly Bolton “Down to the Valley”
- Melissa Greenwood “When Wishes Turn Real”
- Craig Holt “Mass”
- Ann de Forest “Ghostcard”
- Jade Lin “Heart Broken”
- Laurie Granieri “Returns”
- Victoria Mack “Everything is Going To Be Alright”
2022 Issues
- Christian Harrington “Put Your Problems in a Box”
- Tatyana M. Sussex “These Should Be the Real Marriage Vows”
- Mark O. Hodgson “Machines Against the Rage”
- Veena K. Siddharth “Floating”
- Katherine M. Emlan “Wonky Breasts”
- Sara Tatyana Bernstein “Orphans and Runaways”
- Ali Kojak “Betrayed”
- Shell St. James “Foxfire”
- Melanie Figg “Monsters”
- Michelle DeLiso “How I Make a Cheese Omelet”
- Karen Winn “Asterisks”
- Farah Habib “Patches”
- Diane Simmons “The Big Time”
- Charlotte Maya “Grief Math”
- Mikaela Osler “Under Bolton Mountain”
- Laura Stanfill “The End”
- Charlotte Adamis “First Time”
- Sophie Ezzell “A Knot in Constellation”
- Deborah Sherman “Tale of the Bufo”
- Danielle Joffe “Starving”
- Nilsa Rivera Castro “A Trip to the Pit”
- Nancy Townsley “On the Pandemic, Baby Gawking and Unshakeable Love”
- Ashley Bethard “Bells”
- Candice May “Swallow”
- Ali Tarbox Saperstein “Mathematical Proof for Body”
- Jessica Slice “Throwing Myself into Walls”
- Helene Kiser “Your Wife Knows You Are Here”
- Leah Richards “Things Grow Here”
- Deb Fenwick “Screwdriver”
- Adina Ferguson “This is Not Baby Weight”
- Leanne Pierce Schneider “The Dying Room”
- Kathy Davis “Pulses”
- Terri Lewis “Foreign”
- Mimi limuro Van Ausdall “There Are Girls Like You In Japan”
- Ronit Plank “We Had No Woman”
- Lotus Mae “Peephole”
- Susan V. Meyers “Origin Myths”
- Lauren Woods “De-escalation”
- Sally Jonson “Bathymetry”
- Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff “What I Wrote Was Congratulations What I Meant Was”
- Yvanna Vien Tica “Eruption”
- Rick Brown “Tutored”
- Aiysha Jahan “Why is a Door a Plate?”
- Suzanne Orrell “Kitchen Instincts”
- Sarah M. Clifford “Baptism”
- Karen Kao “Drift”
- Sara Streeter “Home is a Feeling”
- Susan Morehouse “Everything Goes”
- Mark Lucius “Act of Contrition”
- Brooke Randel “Swimming with My Grandma”
- Stephanie Eardley “Feeling the Sands”
- Nicolas Poynter “Kamikazes (for Tina)”
- Laura Carraro “Wonderland:”
- Morgan Blair “Hair”
- Shannon Ratliff “on certainty”
- Christie Tate “Bloody Is the Body”
- Ryan Odinak “Two Fishing Women”
- Michael Levan “On a New Life”
- Carol D. Marsh “Promise”
2021 Issues
- Emily Cluff “Navel Gazing”
- Herb Harris “I Was Expecting a Black Guy”
- Molly Thornton “Proof of You”
- Melissa Hart “Reflections on My Grandmother’s Costume Shop While Anxiously Making Masks”
- Chris J. Bahnsen “Wallet”
- Josh Parish “Indian Clinic”
- Stephany Wilkes “Literary No Body”
- K. Zen ‘obia “Hand-Me-Down”
- Sayuri Ayers “The Gift of Lilies”
- Jessica Power Braun “Black Alpaca”
- Porter Huddleston “What Strange Light the Setting Sun”
- Vivian Lee Croft “Cloud Hands”
- Jessica Ripka “Currency”
- Celeste Hankins “Shades of Orange”
- Sheila Monaghan “Her Legacy”
- Francisco Martínezcuello “Salsa Night”
- Anya Liftig “October”
- Tiffany Mathewson “The Space Between Us”
- Paul Crenshaw “I Play With Balls”
- Michelle Strausbaugh “Salisbury Steak Day”
- Scott Bane “A Union Like Ours”
- Kareem Tayyar “A Summer in Taos”
- Bethany Kaylor “The Last Pictures”
- Lush Troha “Mysteries”
- Jim Ross “Nothing New”
- Gwen L. Martin “The Fragility of Bowls”
- Paul Rousseau “Curiously Colored & Timely Animals + Things Forgotten Post Surgery”
- Claire Sicherman “Thirteen”
- K.B. Carle “My Grandma Picks Fights with the Contestants on the Price Is Right”
- Brian Benson “Back Seat”
- Rachel Bunting “Wild Medicine”
- SJ Sindu “A Measure of Men”
- Abigail Rose “Shadows”
- Kate Sheridan “Call Me Master”
- Stuart Horwitz “Daddy Doesn’t Do Courthouses”
- Stephanie Parent “How I Move”
- Chapin Camino “Côtes du Rhône Rosé Xavier Vignon 2019”
- Hailey Rose Hanks “Dolphin”
- Anna B. Moore “Psycho Bitches”
- Dawn-Michelle Baude “Lake of the Ozarks, Osage Beach, Missouri”
- Erin Branning “A Very Good Liar”
- Brian Koukol “Swimming Pool Blues”
- Sharon Goldman “The Warsaw Ghetto Boy”
- Keely O’Connell “New Love Letter”
- Stephanie Cuepo Wobby “Small”
- Vanessa Chan “Sharp”
- Kaylie Jones “Studying the Dystopian Novel During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- Benjamin McPhersin Ficklin “11,000 Lying Facedown on the Burnside Bridge”
- Sophie Scolnik-Brower “After”
- Nita Noveno “The Flight”
- Morgan Eklund “Dave Thomas”
- Gary Smothers “A Darkness to Slice Through: A Night with My Grandfather”
- Hillary Wentworth “I Don’t Know How to Tell You”
- Jess Payne “April 28, 1994”
- Joey Garcia “Last Shot”
- Karen Green “You People”
- Hannah Smothers “Farm Road 1623”
- Kathryn Fitzpatrick “Access”
- Sherry Shahan “Little House in the Redwoods”
- Gavin Paul Colton “Teeth”
- Michelle Bailat-Jones “Up”
- Emma Bruce “Seeing Bone”
- Alison Miller “Room for Troubled Dogs”
- Jennifer Fliss “Rewind”
- Rebecca Snow “Before the Horses Stopped Running”
- Sue Mell “German Lessons”
- Lauren Cross “How to Preserve a Body”
- Agnes Tran “Lên Nước”
- Irene Fick “What I Took After She Died in the Memory Care Wing”
- Chantha Nguon with Kim Green “The Gradual Extinction of Softness”
2020 Issues
- Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter “The Body”
- Lucinda Cummings “Citrus Trees”
- Herb Harris “Double Consciousness”
- Elaine van der Geld “Submerged”
- Harmony Hazard “Forever”
- L. Jackson “The Tan Place”
- Rachel Rueckert “How Was Your Trip?”
- Patrick McNeil “Potato”
- Petra Perkins “Cannot Be Seen, Nor Even Touched”
- Amelia Franz “In the Twinkling of an Eye”
- Rebecca Merrill “Netflix”
- Liz Charlotte Grant “How to Respond to a Friend’s Bad News”
- Zach Sheneman “el préterito”
- Kristin Griffin “Nice Day for It”
- Betsy Johnson “Lost”
- Ona Gritz “Persuasion”
- Jane Rucker “Denial”
- Joyce Tomlinson “Why I’ve Never Read The Secret Garden”
- Kelly Hevel “What You Do In a Coup”
- Sophie Newman “Horse Girl”
- Leta Rebecca Cunningham “Vocabulary”
- Matthew Morris “Blue As In”
- Anne Colwell “What Mother Means”
- Sarah Barnett “Comfort”
- Rich Furman “Patience”
- Megan Verwelst “In My Garden”
- Ann Beman “Fog Effects”
- K.G. Wright “Tiny Twin Step-Mother”
- Nancy Barnes “I Thought I Knew Them”
- Donna M. Magnotta “Shorthand”
- Jess Flarity “The Simplest Recipe”
- Mallory Olivia Taylor “He Looked Small”
- Linda Anne Silver “The Capacity of a Human”
- Jillian Pretzel “My Husband Got a Bad Haircut”
- Michelle Wilms “The Kill Switch”
- Zsofia McMullin “The Crush”
- Theresa Okokon “Me Llamo Theresa”
- Nicola Sebastian “Sometimes We Forget”
- Frency Nguyen “To the Miami University Payroll Lady”
- AM Roselli “Inside My Mother’s Mouth”
- Erica Plouffe Lazure “In Transit”
- Ashley Cowger “Election Day”
- Lisa K. Buchanan “From the Objects of Your Abandonment”
- Jenna McGuiggan “Fill Me with Flowers”
- Max King Cap “The Head on the Commuter Line”
- Smitha Murthy “Food Is Home. Home Is Food”
- Michael Todd “Tan Lines”
- Ruth Q. Leibowitz “Learning to Lose (excerpt from Brooklyn Reveries)
- Katie Parry “Priest Island”
- Kirsten Reneau “Bar Bathroom Graffiti in New Orleans: A One Year Catalog”
- Rachel Fleishman “Women Bleed”
- Brad Wetherell “How to be a Writer in Residence”
- Daniel K. Miller “Earth Is the Answer”
- Gwen Niekamp “Foresight”
- Will McMillan “All the Life That I’ve Known”
- Erica Cao “Gui Hua”
- Mark Hall “Necrokedeia for Children”
- Michael Cuglietta “Congestion”
- Anna Davis-Abel “Made of Match Sticks”
- Nicholas Hug “Right Now I am Drinking a Cortado”
- Alexis Annunziata “Ford Motor Company Tells Me About Perseverance”
- Catherine Young “In That River I Saw Him Again”
- Jonathan Winston Jones “Scars Fists Watch Kiss”
- Zachary Ostraff “Precedent”
- Jessica Ripka “Brothers In Arms”
- Claire O’Brien “Dead Weight”
- Nicole Graev Lipson “The New Pretty”
- Lori Jakjiela “Say You Want to Live and Be Beautiful”
- Laura Joyce-Hubbard “The Honey Bucket”
- DW McKinney “I’ll Be Seeing You: A Black Woman Travels in 2017”
- Darby Shea Williams “Exodus”
- Catherine Young “In That River I Saw Him Again”
- Jonathan Winston Jones “Scars Fists Watch Kiss”
- Zachary Ostraff “Precedent”
- Jessica Ripka “Brothers In Arms”
- Claire O’Brien “Dead Weight”
- Nicole Graev Lipson “The New Pretty”
- Lori Jakjiela “Say You Want to Live and Be Beautiful”
- Laura Joyce-Hubbard “The Honey Bucket”
- DW McKinney “I’ll Be Seeing You: A Black Woman Travels in 2017”
- Darby Shea Williams “Exodus”
2019 Issues
- Lisa Dart “Eva”
- Will Dowd “Thirty-Six Views of the Nuclear Reactor”
- Amber Foster “Thoughts Had on the Morning of April 4, 2010, While Slowly Drifting Out into the Caribbean”
- Lina Lau “Spinning on a Fish Hook”
- Kathryn Leehane “Hide and Seek”
- Margie Sarsfield “Comorbidity”
- Linda Stead “More or Less”
- Raksha Vasudevan “Steps to Becoming Fine: As Lived by My Mother”
- Lorraine Avila “How to Leave Home”
- Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom “The Broken Bird”
- Sarah Kilch Gaffney “Ischemia”
- Karim Lakhani “Slur”
- Carly Mastroni “12/21/12”
- Damhnait Monaghan “How to Say Goodbye to Your Mother”
- Lee Reilly “Art and the Dying Time”
- Kirsten Reneau “An Incredibly Brief and Unfinished History of Sound”
- Robert Burke Warren “Fast Girls”
- Alex Brown “in the fall of 2015 everything was bernie sanders and motion city soundtrack and nothing hurt”
- Richard Stuecker “My Old Kentucky Cocaine Haircut”
- Wendy Fontaine “Northbound”
- Kerry Benson “The Science That Set Me Free”
- Jenny O’Connell “How to Sleep In an Airport”
- Ann Vallee “What Happened to the Dishes in the Divorce”
- Sasha Watson “Brothers”
- Marya Zilberberg “Enduring the Gifts of Soviet Dentistry”
- Melinda Brasher “Night Watchman”
- Caleb Coy “The Power Economy of Dad”
- Allison Gruber “Fan of Anne Sexton”
- Mary Alice Hostetter “Yearnings”
- Paul Crenshaw “Optimism”
- Sara Solberg “Things I Might Say to Spider-Man if He Ever Rescues Me from a Mugger”
- John A. Hansen “Up In Naknek”
- Dorothy Rice “Body Braille”
- Judith Padow “Mexican Blue”
- Debi Lewis “Potatoes and Carrots, or How I Found My Soul in Nineteen Prayers”
- Kelly Fig Smith “Winter Soliloquy”
- Helen Collins Sitler “Light Therapy”
- Jenna Dorian “Lost in Time”
- Hannah Austin “Jewel Thief”
- Rhea DeRose Weiss “Everything Looks Normal”
- Paul Van Dyke “Immortal Acts”
- Mandie Caroll “Smoke”
- Diane Gottlieb “Another A&P (My Apologies to John Updike)”
- Jennie Badger “Welcome to the College of Parenting”
- Jean Coco “The Elusive Element”
- Marysa LaRowe “The Die-Off”
- Peter E. Murphy “The Contender”
- Joanna Greenberg “On Dogs and Dictators”
- Violet Defiant Livingston “K is for Keep Swinging”
- Kandi Maxwell “Embers”
- Anna Chotlos “Raccoon Olympics”
- Jen Minarik “Cold Fusion and the Poochie Overnighter: An Essay About Infertility”
- Simchi Cohen “The Wanderer”
- Kat Read “The Whale”
- Lizzie Roberts “Salt”
- Lisa Cooper Ellison “The Death of Sonny”
- Cristina Flores “Twilight”
- Laura Young “The Comfort of Despair”
- Jenn Hall “The Momentum of Nostalgia”
- Suzanne Roberts “Odds Are”
- Laura Platas Scott “Imganing Cuba”
- Andrea Marcusa “A Temporary Quiet”
- Feivel Wolff “A Conspiracy of Mercy”
- Anne E. Noonan “Quitclaim”
- Patricia Smith “In My Mother’s Kitchen”
- Susan Young “My Face is a Problem”
2018 Issues
- Karen Babine “On Potatoes”
- Aurora D. Bonner “Your Day to Survive”
- Connor Ferguson “Leavings”
- Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons “Construction with Benefits”
- Lee Guthrie “Sir Walter Raleigh”
- Kelley Lusk “The Color Purple”
- Michael Nixon “Consequences”
- Ksenia Panova “Feed”
- Dan Rousseau “Ride”
- Gaetan Sgro “How to Wrestle Loneliness (and Win)”
- Audrey Jennifer Smith “Tough Titties”
- Reema Zaman “The Harvest of Bodies”
- Shane Cashman “Invaders on Holiday (or, The Consequences of Time Travel at the International Stone Skipping Contest)”
- Beverly Donofrio “A Personal History of Dogs”
- Vivé Griffith “Forgive Me South Dakota”
- Alison Condie Jaenicke “Tom Thumb of Crystal City”
- Marie Manilla “Everything Must Go”
- Anne Panning “Five Wallpapers”
- Emily Pavick “Pulling Levers”
- Anne Pinkerton “Higher, Farther, Faster”
- Linda Broder “Strings”
- Christopher P. Collins “The Lesson”
- Damian Dressick “Summer, 1987: Windber – A Place You Can’t Leave By Moving”
- Amelia Fulbright “The Mumbi”
- Lisa Greim “Retail Outlook for the Zombie Apocalypse”
- Jayne Martin “Out of My Hands”
- Sara Michas-Martin “And So Begins, In Slow Motion, the Care of Him”
- Rebecca Nakaba “A Day at the Living Hoard”
- Casey Gentry Quinn “Winter from a Second Floor Window”
- Stephanie Vessely “A Thing No Longer Given Freely”
- Miranda Campbell “What He Left Behind”
- Suchita Chadha “Hair(y) and Lovely, Sometimes”
- William Dameron “Bagging the Office Bully”
- Amy Fish “When Someone Shows You Who They Are, Believe Them the First Time”
- Meredith Jeffers “Schooled”
- Jeffrey Seitzer “Battlefield Promotion”
- Mireya S. Vela “On the Bus”
- John Carr Walker “Sulfur and Its Relationship to Suffering”
- Ryder S. Ziebarth “Looming”
- Cecily Blench “The Good Death”
- Amrita C “The Butcher of Walthamstow”
- Ruth Kogen Goodwin “The Swing”
- Bridget Kevane “The Kiss”
- Paula Martinac “Good to the Girls”
- Tamzin Mitchell “Bathtub Dishes at the Witching Hour”
- Michael Sausun Shirzadian “Dem Bones”
- Sean Finucane Toner “Another Kiss Goodbye, Comrade Drena”
This was our “Keepsakes” theme issue.
- Maria Browning “Fragments”
- Cindy Carlson “What to Keep”
- Ed Doerr “Be Kind, Rewind”
- Richard Goodman “My Beautiful Machine”
- Gail Griffin “Ticket to Ride”
- Mark Liebenow “Artifacts”
- Anne Moul “The Good Creche”
- Mindy Haskins Rogers “Swiss Army Knife”
- Andrea Tate “Body”
- Anna Anderson “Life and Death at the T.J. Maxx”
- Lexi Castiglione “Gender Roles: An Academic How to Skate Guide for Girls”
- Jodi Sh. Doff “A Note is Passed”
- Kami Westhoff “Onslaught”
- Alan N. Yount “The Paddle”
- Lukas Lom “In the Hostel”
- Matt W. Miller “Age of Discovery”
- Margie Patlak “Moment of Zen”
- Meg Rodriguez “Freckled Boy, Small Wrists”
- Melissa Stephenson “Lessons in Disaster”
- Lisa E. Wright “Mourning What I Barely Had, Flushed”
- Chris J. Bahnsen “Floaters”
- Louise Foster “The Book of Daniel”
- Angela K. Knight “Ringworm”
- Tara Roberts “Montana”
- Kate Strum “Spiritual Affliction: A Thank You Note to Oklahoma”
- Laura Gilkey “Portraits of a Dying Day”
- Adriana Gonzalez “Sights of a Narrowleaf Milkweed”
- Jessica Reed “The Gospel Bus”
- Keith Skinner “Nickel Men”
- Linda Stead “The Cyclops Child”
- Roberta Gibson “Sharp Memories”
- Mallory Gill “Eat This”
- Emily James “The Mess We’re In”
- Marianna Marlowe “Fear”
- Jason Schwartzman “Which World We’re In”
- Christie O. Tate “Buried in My Wrong Body”
2017 Issues
- Kathleen Boyle “After the Accident”
- William C. Crawford “The 18-Minute Rule Throws Jimmy Pro For A Loop In Gotham City”
- Amanda Fletcher “California”
- Eileen O’Connor “The Fortuneteller”
- Charnell Peters “After I Glimpse the Phenomenal Blurb on Page 153”
- Isaac Yuen “Rhythm”
- Doug Brewer “A Field Guide to Motel Chairs”
- Kerry Cohen “To See a World”
- Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer “Echocardiogram”
- Randy Magnuson “This Is How It Will Go”
- Joe Oswald “The Saturday Before and After the Wednesday In Between”
- Alexis Paige “Elixir Washes Ashore”
- Cindy Winetroub Rogers “A Mother’s Guide to Leukemia and Its Aftermath”
- Elizabeth Zaleski “The Trouble with Loving Poets”
- Colter Jackson “Big Wigs”
- Laura B. Johnsrude “Wild Things”
- Morgan Kayser “Hallowed and Hollow”
- Michele Leavitt “Maternity Cave”
- Teri McDowell Ott “Newborn Sparrow”
- Caroline Siegrist “Code Grey”
- William Thompson “On Smoking”
- Shaun Turner “Grocery Stories”
- Chelsea Ardle “The Makeup of Things”
- Jane Murray Bird “Before Lent”
- Leslie Kendall Dye “Circle Where It Hurts”
- Jane Marcellus “Scissors”
- Warren Merkel “I Take It Back”
- Marianna Pogosyan “The Psychologists”
- Marsh Rose “And Then There Was Dad: A Supplement for the Baby Boomer Guidebooks”
- Alex Simand “Recipe for Salat Olivier”
- Melissa Coss Aquino “Bike Scars”
- Joanna Brichetto “Naked Ladies and Cicadas”
- Anjali Enjeti “You Look Like Your Daddy”
- Deb Hemley “Wandering”
- Ryan Kauffman “A Cloud the Shape of Kentucky”
- Callie Reitfors “Wings”
- Leanne Sowul “The Birth of Fear”
- Kristin Weller “What Writer and Teacher Can Tell You About Craft”
- Jim Breslin “The State of Elvis in 2016”
- Ed Doerr “Eastern Parkway”
- Gretchen Henkel “Her Breasts”
- Kaylie Jones “Bad Mother”
- Mary Heather Noble “Things Seen in the Dark: A Triptych”
- Nicole Piasecki “Maybe We Can Make a Circle”
- Eben S. Schwartz “Smoking or Non”
- Brenna Womer “Forever Blonde”
This was our “Stranger(s)” theme issue.
- David Daniel “Bus Ride with Violins”
- Geoff Director “Ball Don’t Lie”
- Patricia M. Dwyer “The Heart’s Chambers”
- Jennifer Fliss “The Key Chain”
- Jaclyn Maria Fowler “Hot has a Smell in the Desert”
- Jen Grow “Small Offerings”
- Roberto Loiederman “The Bolan Mail”
- Joyce H. Munro “Unspeakable”
- Audrey Granger Perry “Body Economy”
- Scott Loring Sanders “The Lost Art”
- Paul Crenshaw “We’re Nowhere Near the End”
- Penny Guisinger “Looking for Luke Skywalker”
- Jenny Fleming “Canoe Medicine”
- Lee Huttner “God Waits in the Thunder”
- Rita Ciresi “Sounds”
- Kate Washington “Waiting for the Coroner”
- Tricia Theis “Future Perfect”
- Kendell Newman Sadiik “On Top of His Double Bed, in Fes, Morocco”
- Brian Broome “God Don’t Like Ugly”
- Brittany Means “Driving with Mom”
- Shane Griffin “Trespassing in Rural Iowa”
- Sabrina Lee “Thin”
- Mary Roberson Wiygul “Things Mom Says”
- Walker Raigh “Olfactory Adolescence: A Collection of Scented Memories”
- Christie Jenkins “Among Other Things, Fish”
- Jennifer Watkins “Red Clay Castles”
- Shamae Budd “Economics of Loss”
- John A. McDermott “My Mother at Georg Jensen”
- Martha Polk “The After Party”
- Tim Hillegonds “Gradually, Then Suddenly”
- Ed Nugent “A Paean to Change”
- Cameron Gearen “Live by the Sword”
- Chris Carbaugh “Vienna Sausage and Such”
- Anne Gudger “Helix”
- Y. L. Fine “Taunting the Abyss”
- Gwen Erkonen “Baptism by Fire”
- Sarah Morris “Pulp
- Nina Boutsikaris “Some Sort of Union”
- Blake Fugler “Winter and Other Seasons”
- Evelyn Krieger “Who By Fire”
- Hannah van Didden “Water and Light”
- Christy Lynch “Vee Dubya”
- Kirsten Voris “Swimming with Headscarf Ladies”
- B. Richard Wright “Women Without Names”
- Christopher Maher “To the Lighthouse”
- David R. Bowne “The Improbability of Me (and You)
2016 Issues
- Kay Marie Porterfield “Second Breakfast”
- Christ Arthur “Shells”
- Jennifer S. Brown “Here But Not Here”
- Sarah M. Wells “Genotype”
- Marcia Bradley “Card Catalogues”
- Mary Scherf “Truth is a Foreign Object”
- Morgan Smith “A Member of the Family”
- Emilie Rohrbach “Big Sky Mind”
- Jaclyn Moyer “When All Her Hair Is Gone”
- Lasher Lane “Mind Readers and Marble Orchards”
- Kim Koehler “Tiny Relics”
- Stephanie Rosenfeld and Luciano Colonna “This Is Your Marriage On Drugs (An Excerpt)”
- Patricia Perry Donovan “Second Nature”
- Tom Molanphy “The Road Less: John Huston, Blue-Footed Boobies and Me”
- Cal Freeman “Red Wings 2017, or In Defense of Suicide”
- Kelly Jean Fitsimmons “Always Believe, Love Santa”
- Melissa Knackmuhs Kiefer “The Police Officer’s Wife”
- Lea Page “Letting Go: In Her Words”
- Andy Harper “Valentine’s Day”
- Allison Coffelt “Inheritance”
- Andrea Della Monica “They Had Three Daughters”
- Lisa Laughlin “Ice Breaker”
- Mary Ann Bragg “Perpetual Care”
- Samuel Chamberlain “The Great Unknown”
- Amanda J. Crawford “Nogales”
- Steph Auteri “I Am Strong Because She Needs Me”
- Nicole Breit “Shame Shame”
- Kelly Shire “Hair of the Dog”
- Bonnie Losak “A Lack of Buoyancy”
- Genevieve Anna Tyrrell “The Egregious Faux Pas of a Film Studio Intern”
- David M. Novick “Stakeholders”
- Robert W. Fieseler “Red Rabbit”
- Kat Moore “Where Do You Go From Alston Street?”
- Amanda Lightner “Holiness of a Garden”
- J. L. Cooper “Inheritance”
- Anita Gill “Lesson Plans”
- Lynne Nugent “Auteur”
- Emily Urness “Light of the Figures”
- Milena Nigam “Without You”
- Deborah Esther Schifter “Body Warmth”
- Meg Stone “Not Pretending”
- Christi Craig “At the Fence”
- Damara Martin “What Chu Tryin’ Ta Say, Doe?”
- Harriet Heydemann “Beach Tires”
- Carina Sitkus “Where Houses Once Stood”
- Katrina Knebel “A Midnight Burning”
- Craig Reinbold “Holding the Plank”
- John Picard “Radical Chic”
- Stephanie Andersen “Still”
- Judy Kronenfeld “Shame”
- Sandra Gail Lambert “The Laundromat”
- Irving A. Greenfield “Memorial Day Weekend 2015”
- Jody Kennedy “Beautiful”
- Michael David Todorovich “Ineligible”
- Darryl Graff “The Hall”
- Emily Rich “The Sparrow’s Nest”
- Sue Repko “Gun-Sitting”
This was our “Firsts” theme issue.
- Linda Keyes “Glorious Defeats: Lessons In Emergency Medicine”
- Rae Pagliarulo “Four Times More Likely”
- Jennifer Lang “Gas Masks and Wedding Vows”
- Chelsea Laine Wells “The Wedding Rings”
- Katie Daley “Southbound, 1975”
- Ola Osaze “Mismatched”
- Lisa Romeo “The Amazing Technicolor Horse Dream”
- Dan Grote “One Day In August”
- Debra L. Eder “Cristina’s World”
- Ted Duke “My First Flight”
- Madhushree Ghosh “Fearless”
- William Thompson “Q and A”
- Tal Abbady “House of Animals”
- Michael Henrey “The Waiting Rooms”
- Anjoli Roy “Good Intentions and a Bad Idea”
- Emily Brisse “I Am Still Here”
- Gretchen Clark “Period
- Kim Steutermann Rogers “Cowboys Are His Weakness”
- Barth Landor “My Barber Ben”
- Jennifer Fliss “In the Safety of a Three-Sided Box”
- Gwen Francis-Williams “Asian Pears and Red Azaleas”
- Magin LaSov Gregg “Butterfly”
- Catherine Young “Recipe by Heart”
- Lara Lillibridge “The Right Tap”
- Dan Branch “Just a Ferryman”
- Natasha Lvovich “A Stroll Westward: Twenty-Five Years in Coney Island”
- Jesse Waters “Burger”
- Gail Hosking “Six Flash Essays”
- Dave Wheeler “Science for Boys”
- Stephen Morison Jr. “The Decision”
- J.R. Lara “Distance”
- Susan Imboden “Everett”
- Lillian Brown “Armageddon”
- Klayton Kasperbauer “Charges”
- Sharmaine Ong “Americana”
- Dina Honour “1001 Nights”
- Robert Rubino “Spinning Shame into Nostalgia”
- Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman “Advanced Placement”
- Naomi Cohn “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
- Miki Brina “Arizabesu”
- Robert Weinberger “Enough”
- Travis Truax “Like a Riverbank”
- Susan Lilley “Eavesdropping”
- Michael Fischer “When the Glove Comes Off”
- Sarah Broussard Weaver “Song of Her Self”
- Madhushree Ghosh “When Indira Died”
- Sarah Twombly “The Strongest Cookie”
- Candace Forrest Jaffe “Release”
- Dot Hearn “Alone in Reno”
2015 Issues
- Joanne Lozar Glenn “My Mother’s Ghost”
- Bernard Grant “Bereaved”
- Aliza Zelin Neidich “To Settle”
- Elane Johnson “Honeymoon”
- Cory Bortnicker “Hubert”
- Lindsey Clark “Island Education”
- Dina Honour “Another Brick in the Wall”
- Kirsten Voris “Peanut Training”
- James Stafford “Your Dreams Were Your Ticket Out”
- Krista Christensen “Traction”
- Joe Kraus “An End Not of Hope But Horizon”
- Lynn Hall “Blue is the Color of Hope”
- Jayne Martin “The Only Child”
- Jody Keisner “Makin’ Dirty Dishes”
- George Dila “Smoking Dreams”
- Amanda Miska “Stalking My Ex-Boyfriend’s Girlfriend on Facebook”
- Dale Roche “Cow Love (L’amour vache)”
- Doug Thiele “Wakefield”
- Ryan Rydzewski “A Love Letter to Sarah”
- Jenny Clover “A Beagle on My Knee”
- Debbie Bradford “What I Learned Instead”
- Philip Brock “Closing Remarks”
- Alex Sobel “The Deep End”
- Wendy Fontaine “Sand Dollars”
- Aileen Hunt “Measuring Up”
- Alison B. Hart “Palestines”
- Stacey Resnikoff “Toxicology”
- Donna Patrick “Like Butterfly Wings”
- Mary Ann Cooper “Forgotten”
- Jocelyn Heany “Grullo”
- Alex Barbolish “The Perfect Storm”
- Marin Heinritz “Keening”
- Warren Rawson “My Dad’s Hats”
- Emily Hipchen “Good Girls Don’t”
- Carl Tiktin “Korea, 1952”
- Maggie Pahos “Comeback”
- Leslie Tucker “Wonder”
- Melissa Frederick “Rape Stories”
- Susan Pope “Searching for Neptune”
- Rick Brazeau “Still”
- Gail Anderson “First Day”
- Peter Stravos “Scar”
- Rachel Marks “Johnny Quits”
- JT Siems “Movies in the Cemetery”
- Paula Freed “Doppleganger”
- Erik Dane “Re-envisioning Daydreams”
- Scott Loring Sanders “4/20”
- Amanda Medress “A Leap into the Sky”
- Sarah Baughman “Hands on My Belly”
- Rocky Lewis “Heart Failure”
- Jeanne Lyett Gassman “Mapping the Body”
- Aimee Liu “Bite”
- Jennifer Dane Clements “A Study of Hands”
- Spencer Fleury “The Claw”
- Brantlee Reid “Wick of a Prayer”
- Adam Gianforcaro “A Friend Home From War”
- Alex Grasseschi “Canterbury Cathedral”
- Lesley Heiser “Saudade”
- John Yu Branscum “Things in the Shape of Trailers”
- Trace Ramsey “Briggs Avenue”
- Sandra Gail Lambert “Rolling in the Mud”
- DeWitt Clinton “What I’ve Learned So Far”
- A. Lyn Carol “Grace”
- Peter M. Ives “Night Attack”
- Lisa Romeo “Going Through Your Things / Superhero”
- Anne Campbell Gruner “A Bittersweet Remembrance: A US Navy Dad”
- Kaylen Mallard “The Hot and Cold of It”
- Jeffery Weinstock “It’ll Come When It Comes”
- Todd Sformo “Knots”
This was our “Guilty Pleasures & Vices” theme issue.
- Jenny Cutler-Lopez “Blue-Eyed Devil”
- Kirsten Voris “Split End”
- Leigh Hellman “BKK”
- Elane Johnson “The Other F Word”
- Dana Sitar “Dick Jokes and Dirty Puns”
- Terry Barr “No One’s There to Catch You When You Fall”
- Emily Nelms “The Lengths I’d Grow for You”
- Liz Prato “The Erection Question”
- Sydney Allen “Killing Sims”
- Kim Kluxen Meredith “Don’t Look”
- Wes Civilz “Brothel in a Strip Mall”
- Anonymous “To Covet”
- Elisa Jay “noise.”
- Georgia Kreiger “Fog Man”
- Christine Ritenis “Appearances”
- Kerry Folan “Fractures”
- Laura Johnson Dahlike “Death and a Missed Morning Coffee”
- Jason Arment “Santa Muerte”
- Melissa Walker “American Buffalo”
- Ellie Stewart “Talisman”
- Tasia M. Hane “Photographs”
- Shebana Coelho “The Sound Sleep of a Water Diviner”
- Steven Flam “Gummed Up”
- Elizabeth Syson “Dear Granny”
- Sarah Kilch Gaffney “A Geography of Grief”
- Asha Dore “Words with the Hospital Chaplain”
- Richard LeBlond “Too Long Tea”
- Tina Mortimer “Until Gwen”
- Sean Gill “A Temporary Shelf-Life”
- Eric Day “Tiny Baby’s Great Escape”
- Charlotte Gullick “Little Bitch Rising”
- James Knisely “Eye Contact”
- Julie Wieneck “Airplanes and Heartbreak”
- Sarah Malley “The Mother of Pentacles”
- Carroll Sandel “Enough”
- Nicole Quinn “We Killed a Nun”
- Lisa Nikolidakis “Silence, Stillness”
- Hayli Cox “Self-Portrait”
- Julie Stotz-Ghosh “Spring Break, Freshman year”
- Corey Ginsberg “Points of Departure”
- Will Dart “Spook”
- Matt Jones “Hunger and Sleep”
- Michael Narkunski “The Missing Piece”
- Amy Elisabeth Smith “Rat Trailer”
- Joshua Williams “Not Here”
- Anthony Spinner “Escape from Candyland”
- Maria Ivkovich Manuccia “Ode to a Sugar Cloud”
- Melanie Brooks “Losing Weight”
- Gregg J. Orifici “The Lord Won’t Mind”
- Carol Smith “Object Lessons”
- Tyler Lacoma “The Sound of Ice”
- Jeanine Pfeiffer “Until We Have Loved”
- Charisse Coleman “Penalty Phase”
- Cynthia Jalyniski “Lessons from My Sire”
- Dina Honour “Unwrapped”
- Jacqueline Heinz “Never Could I Leave You”
- Marissa Higgins “Fisher Cats”
- Laurie Baker “Crossing Abbey Road”
- Corinne Heyning Laverty “With Dogs as My Shepherd”
- Mary Lide “Chewing Gardens”
- Lisa Baird “Blue Rider”
- David Young “Abol Bridge”
- Ronnie K. Stephens “Build and Build and Build Again”
- Dorothy Hom “A Journey Back”
- Linda Dunlavy “Universe”
- Matt W. Miller “Take Arms”
- Lisa Rivero “String Theory”
2014 Issues
- Jennifer Ochstein “Human Interest”
- Pamela Ramos Langley “Stitching the Womb”
- Michael Soloway “Women and Children First”
- Genevieve Anna Tyrrell “Apoptosis”
- Julie Marie Wade “The Book of Favorites”
- Nancy Devine “I Am Here”
- Amy Braziller “Post. Wait. Delete”
- Krystal Skwar “Blessed Are the Snow Gods”
- John Unger “Finding Rich in the Gulf of Alaska”
- Meghan MacNamara “The Real Boxer”
- T. Nicole Cirone “Patagonia”
- Jules Barrueco “Missing Memories and Underpants”
- James Stafford “When We Talk About Guns”
- Laura Spielvogel “Written in Bone”
- Caroline Praderio “Why I Have Refrained From Burning Them”
- Jonathan Mack “Psychiatry, Tokyo Style”
- Lonette Stayton “Like Momma”
- Thomas Wells “Thesis”
- Alexandria Peary “Bob’s Keys to the Kingdom”
- Betty Jo Buro “Hands”
- Lindsay Indermill “Coyote Fence”
- Carlo Frank Calo “Need a Haircut!”
- Sydney Lea “American Dream, 2013”
- Megan Romo “Lady Business”
- Paul Rotter “Zwischenzug”
- Robert Gilbert Luftig “Dear Peaches”
- Kerin Sommer “Still Recovering: A Junkie Confession”
- John F. Miglio “A Temporary Release from the Blues”
- Eve Goldberg “Watergate Summer”
- Anne Frantilla “Hope is the Thing”
- Katie Mehrer “Entries”
- Karen Lentz “Things My Mother Couldn’t Tell Me”
- Huda Al-Marashi “Is This a Date?”
- Darrelyn Saloom “No Sign of Daddy”
- Sue Granzella “Who Am I”
- Wendy Thornton “Affairs of Dragons”
- Amber Peckham “Savage Blossom”
- Andrea Fox “Fabric”
- JT Torres “Nana’s Guide to Illusion”
- Dustan McGill “Li Ching-Yuen”
- Jim Brega “Twenty Questions”
- Morgan Christie “Partitions”
This was our “Weather and Mother Nature” theme issue.
- Sarah Cedeno “A Moon Story”
- Campbell Hoffman “Thunderstorm”
- Feagin Jones “Tornado”
- Janee J. Baugher “Water”
- Christine Hale “Sitting with the Storm”
- Todd Sentell “Southern Rain”
- Matthew Brennan “Distance”
- Clive Collins “Runner”
- Jenna Mathys “Bus Ride with Santa, the Average Citizen and Me”
- Titles forthcoming
- Vance Voyles “Behind the Walls”
- Kathryn Bold “Full House”
- Damien Galeone “The Pond”
- Sean Prentiss “Memories of His Father”
- Carrie Flynn “Memorial Day”
- Nancy Weber “Bringing Home the Gumby”
- Lorie Adair “This Stranger, My Father”
- Bronze Johnson “Lambs on the Bubble”
- Jenni Wilson “Con Te Partiro”
- Jon Magidsohn “Across the Universe: The Solace of Songs”
- Arsheeya Mashaw “The Giants’ Magical Season”
- Liesl Nunns “The Mint Farm”
- Judy Whitehill Witt “Twice upon a Trip”
- Robert Isenberg “Who Watches the Guáchiman”
- Hannah Straton “A Manual for Fire and Stories”
- Joelle Berger “Together, in Orange”
- Jason Griffith “Bare”
- Jessica Allen “Nine Things Said Over a Hospital Bed”
- Susan Kieffer “The View from the Moon”
- Joanne M. Lozar Glenn “Secrets of the Suddenly Single”
- Mark Sullivan “Guts”
- Jennifer Alise Drew “Lessons in Sign”
- Sophie Lucido Johnson “Variations on Prayer”
- Suzanne Farrell Smith “Another Version of Us”
- Thomas Gibbs “The Grant Hotel Mackinac Island”
- Mary Killian “These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends”
- Dierdre Sinnott “Gathering Stock”
- Carolyn Roberts “Sanrinsha”
- Jennifer Alessi “What Rules”
- Sharon Stephenson “On Getting Dressed”
- Maureen Hirthler “Forgetting Fire”
- Angela Palm “Do You Have Anything to Declare?”
- Riley H. Welcker “Concrete”
- Reynold Junker “Honor”
2013 Issues
- Sangamithra Iyre “Pile Driving, Poetry, and Poultry”
- Dan Shewan “Home on the Range”
- Derick Strode “The Baptism of Oma Ray”
- Mary Diduch “Sunflowers in New Jersey”
- William Vernon “Sinkhole”
- Jessica Bryant Klaggman “Demanding This”
- Claudia Geagan “White Trash”
- Jane Hoppen “The Mystery That Makes Me Cry”
- Carey Bagdassarian “A Theory of Longing By a Scientist at Midlife”
- Michele Leavitt “Kitten Sack”
- Robert Isenberg “The Urn”
- Shae Krispinsky “Heroes Mean Nothing; They Never Keep Warm”
- Lori Jakiela “Seek and Find”
- Lois Bassen “Roe v. Wade”
- Molly Seale “Invisible”
- Ray Scanlon “Trout”
- Ali McCart “Bubby”
- Karen Olivia Peck “Kill Me First”
- Robin Parks “Our First Reaction”
- Marla Lepore “How to Recover from a Hangover in Barcelona”
- Robert Weinberger “Confessions of a Nervous Child”
- Margaret Ozmet “October 20”
- Robert Richter “First Crossing: Nogales, 1971”
- Shaila Kapoor “Easter Eggs: Spring 1977”
- Sean Finucane Toner “A Graveside Nuptial”
- Deirdre Sinnott “Right-Sized Rats”
- Chris Cox “My First Trip Truckin’ “
- Fred Amram “The Reluctant Grown-up”
- Sharon Carmack “Switched at Midlife”
- Deborah Thompson “Debbie Did”
- Mary Colleen-Jenkins “Flat Rate Archives”
- Nathan Evans “Firsts”
- Jane Hammons “Holy Tribunal”
- Suzanne Farrell Smith “The Rabbit Hole”
- Janna Leyde “The Sky Turns Blue and the Sun Appears”
- Angie M. Chatman “Jazz is the Root”
- Laurie Easter “I Have to Tell You Something”
- Alice Lower “The Sky’s the Limit”
- Shiv Dutta “The Physicist”
- Amy Yao “Upload Your Personal Essay Below”
This was our “Road Trip” theme issue.
- Penn Stewart “Good Intentions”
- Anthony J. Mohr “Blue Eyes at the Wheel”
- Vicki Mayk “Road Warrior”
- Camille Griep “Driving Alone”
- John Redmond “Silent Night, Firelight”
- Hayley LeMay “Lining Up to be a Hot Lunch”
- Stacey Balkun “Call of the Canyon”
- Stuart Gelzer “Song Collectors”
- Matt Berman “The Life of a Houseplant”
- Kelly Flick “Minutes from Savannah”
- Jim Gray “Sweating the Sweater”
- Christine Cooper “When the Light Changes”
- Jacqueline Doyle “Mirrors and Reflections”
- Stuart Gelzer “Guns and Dogs”
- Renita Ford-Collier “The Marble”
- Cloe Axelson “A Walk”
- Robert Hanson “Ground Walkers”
- Suzanne Kamata “The Road to Versailles”
- Steven Simoncic “I Like You”
- D. Watkins “Straight Shots of Family”
- Alexandra Risen “Chapter One: Foraged Love”
- Leslie Tucker “Vanishing: The Anxiety of Geography and Genetics”
- A. E. Bell “Wash Me Clean”
- Cheryl Diane Kidder “Burn”
- Colleen O’Neill “On Becoming a Saint”
- Conor Kelley “Vici”
- Sharyn Ellison “Bad Hair: Is it Really? Or is it Just Me?
- Anika Fajardo “The Chase”
- Dorothy Brooks “Laughing in Navajo: My Journey to the Rez”
- Shannon Fandler “Wet, Dead Leaves”
- Kevin Scott Phillips “Honorary Sister”
- Hi-Dong Chai “Shattered by the Wars (an excerpt)”
- Rachel Blumenfeld “The Fig Thief”
- Matthew Zanoni Müller “Fits and Starts”
- Anne Fox “Something in the Air”
- Karen Zey “Jake”
- Christi Craig “Consistency”
- Patricia Dubrava “Triage Teacher”
- Lee Stoops “Is Danger My Middle Name?”
- Ian Rastall “Almost Martyred for the Wrong Faith”
- Claire Asbury “Charlie the Couch Takes the Final Plunge”
2012 Issues
- Fred Amram “The Reluctant Grown-Up
- Sharon Carmack “Switched at Midlife”
- Nikki Foltin “Confirmation”
- Deborah Thompson “Debbie Did”
- Krista Creel “The Patriotic Chicken”
- Angelle Scott “Learning to Swim”
- Michael Milburn “The Second Education”
- Emily Johnson “Dust to Dust”
- Kirby Wright “Junk an’ a Po“
- Alex Belz “The Ravioli Incident”
- Noriko Nakada “The Coast”
- Ruth Keally “Los Angeles, 1965”
- Fred Amram “The Outsider”
- MT Cozzola “Third Waterfall”
- Ray Shea “Saint E’s”
- Nathan Evans “The Medium”
- Corrina Fales “While We Await a Cure for Alzheimer’s: The Mother I Know”
- Alyson Bannister “Matriarch”
- Lucille Rains “The Piano Sale”
- Tiffany Hauck “Marking Time”
- Carol Feiner “Any Good News?”
- Alicia Hendley “Passed Over”
- Davis Williams “The First Shot”
- Patty Somlo “If You Could Explain It”
- Charles B. Snoad “An Image of My Father”
- Kris Rudolph “Discovering Quebecois Cuisine”
- Nathan Leslie “A First Job”
- Bryce Journey “Deceptions”
- Erika Dreifus “Comprehension”
- Rose Hunter “Glitter”
- Eileen Cuniffe “Dear Phillies”
- Thomas Larson “The Multihyphenated Author”
- MT Cozzola “Toothbrush”
- Jennifer Tuman “The Shangri-La That Isn’t”
- Julie Marie Wade “Only Child”
- Heather Rick “In Transit”
- Curtis Smith “A New Year”
- Joseph Edwin Haeger “Brotherly Love”
This was our “Rock-n-Roll” theme issue.
- Risa Nye “Driving Home”
- Sheila Grace Stuewe “Long Time Gone: September 27, 2010”
- Nancy Davis Kho “Rocking My Baby”
- Melanie Malinowski “Stone Cold Fox”
- Fred Osuna “I Hate Your Favorite Band”
- MT Cozzola “Grey Seal”
- Heather Rick “An Evening of Extraordinary Circumstance”
- Lori A. May “The Flip Side”
- Anne Clendening “A Piece for Assorted Lunatics”
- Chris Cox “My First Trip Truckin’ “
- Susanna Donato “Separate Ways”
- Roberta F. King “Dirty Clothes”
- Georgia Kreiger “Mayfly”
- Linda C. Wisniewski “Bread on the Grass”
- Jessica Hamilton “Auto Mechanics”
- Thomas Michael Duncan “Talking to Jacob on a Type 2 Day”
- Sean Finucane Toner “A Graveside Nuptial”
- Deirdre Sinnott “Right-Sized Rats”
- Andrea Fox “Mea Culpa, Maria”
- Elizabeth Webb “Riding in Emily Hackett’s Car”
- A.J. Kandathil “Appalachian Vanity Fair”
- Kate Levin “Rich Facts”
- Nathan Evans “Asking Barry Questions”
- Jim Gray “A Burning Need”
- Rose Hunter “Buenos Aires”
- Debbie Hemley “The Royal Order”
- William Hoffacker “Learning to Drive”
- Kel Kennedy “Up, Down”
- Amye Archer “Bed Time”
- Janice Anderson “How to Move in One Direction While Flying in Another”
- Jim Gray “A Snip Decision”
- MT Cozzola “Tell Me Something Wonderful”
- Veronica Picone “Tormenta, an excerpt of Tesoro: Treasure”
- Dawn Zera “Distant Relatives”
- Nancy J. Brandwein “Letters from My Mum-In-Law”
- April Jo Murphy “Vanilla Bones”
- Anne Fox “Home Fires Burning”
- Robert Weinberger “Sex, Drugs and Vic Giovanni”
- Elizabeth Langemek “Danger By Its Stem”
2011 Issues
- Nathan Evans “Vaseline”
- Suzanne Farrell Smith “The Rabbit Hole”
- Amye Barrese Archer “The First Time”
- Kate McCahill “Falling for You, City”
- J. Bradley “The Darwinist Shopper”
- Kel McIntyre Marthe “Everlasting Gobstoppers Aren’t Really Everlasting”
- Lisa Marie Brodsky “Panic of Birds”
- Lisa Dale Norton “The Art is in the Details”
- Mike Maher “Waking Up”
- Kelly Evans “Rig”
- Michael Andreoni “Sell Me”
- Natalie Gleason “A Taste of Degress”
- Aimee Anderson “A Father”
- Nancy Devine “Cold Feet”
- William Henderson “Support Group”
- Brenna McKinnon “At Least for Now”
- Kim Dalferes “Trivial Pursuits”
- Jane Hammons “Holy Tribunal”
- Rachel Cann “Parting”
- Peter Demarco “1977”
- Norika Nakada “Big Brother”
- Thomas DeMary “Depressive Episodes”
- Renee D’Aoust “Caroline Kirkland & Her Greyhound D’Orsay
- Cameron Witbeck “The Saint of Broken Bones”
- Thalia Bardell “Home Court”
- Nancy J. Brandwein “Scraping the Bottom”
- Angela Fan “Searching”
- Andrew David King “Real Unreal Things”
- Anika Fajardo “Playing Poohsticks”
- Nicole Oquendo “Urns”
- Cory Fosco “The House That Built Me”
- John M. Wills “Nothing Left”
- Nathan Evans “Firsts”
- Pauline M. Campos “Truth and Drumsticks”
- Nancy J. Brandwein “Confession”
- Lori M. Myers “Word”
- Alexandria Peary “Bob’s Keys to the Kingdom”
- Ben Jolivet “The Thing That Worked”
- Mary-Colleen Jenkins “Flat Rate Archives”
- Marti Trgovich “What to do When You Grow Tired of Everything”
- Deirdre Sinnott “Reading The Feminine Mystique in Norman Mailer’s Home”
- Alvin Burstein “How I Got to be None of the Above”
- Amalia Pistilli Conrad “1968: Chaos, Turmoil, In the Streets, In Our Bedroom”
- Vanessa Chastain Rivas “Perfectionist”
- Donna Steiner “Jumping the Gun”
- William Henderson “The Writing on the Wall”
- Lisa Ahn “Bone Tattoos: Writing Lake Eola”
- Susan Rukeyser “X-Rays Are My Souvenirs”
- Lydie Raschka “Doors that Open Shut”
- Vicki Mayk “Verismo”
- Anika Fajarda “The Echo of a Fall”
- Deirdre Sinnott “Outside”
- Bill Mullis “Drums”
- Jodie Dalton “The Long Way to Home Base”
- Suzanne Farrell Smith “Blaze of Gloria”
- Rick Kempa “Nothing Between Us Now But Love”
- Kim Liao “Scarcity”
- Ben Jolivet “The Fall: A Brief Anthology”
- Marisa Gina Mangani “Stuffing the Bird”
Whew! That’s a LOT of creative nonfiction. We’re SO proud of this list, and scrolling through it, seeing all these familliar names, makes us beam with pride for all of the voices we’ve featured sinde 2011 and reminds us that the blood, sweat, and tears of running an independent, all-volunteer literary magazine is indeed worth it.
P.S. Many of the names you see in this list have since published books, won awards, been anthologized, etc. Read more about the success of past Hippocampus Magazine contributors at our Honors, Awards & Recognition page, which lists their achievements!
